Potential risk of cartilage damage in double bundle ACL reconstruction: Impact of knee flexion angle and portal location on the femoral PL bundle tunnel

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 509-513

  Zantop, Thore ^a   Haase, Ann Kristin ^a   Fu, Freddie H ^b   Petersen, Wolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chondral damage; Double bundle ACL reconstruction; Pitfalls; PL bundle; Revision

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; CARTILAGE INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRILL; FEMUR CONDYLE; HYPOTHESIS; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE MENISCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMUR; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 41949134173     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-007-0480-y     Document Type: Article

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